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Angliholic Posted 17 years ago
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So many people//such fine weather
I have met so many people in the last few days that I can't remember all of their names.
It's such fine weather that we'd like to go out.
Hi,
I think so and such fit well in their own contexts in the above, but could you tell me why the first sentence uses "so" while the second "such" though the underlined structures are similar? Thanks.
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It's such fine weather that we'd like to go out.
Hi,
I think so and such fit well in their own contexts in the above, but could you tell me why the first sentence uses "so" while the second "such" though the underlined structures are similar? Thanks.
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so and such are used in a variety of patterns. so is an adverb of degree, or a "degree item", so it's used to modify adjectives and adverbs. so many, so much, so little, so few, so happy, so happily, so simple, so simply, so polite, so politely such is adjectival, and it goes with nouns.
- so and such are used in a variety of patterns.
- so is an adverb of degree, or a "degree item", so it's used to modify adjectives and adverbs.
- so many, so much, so little, so few, so happy, so happily, so simple, so simply, so polite, so politely such is adjectival, and it goes with nouns.
- such weather, such things, such happiness, such simplicity, such courtesy Use such a for the singular of countable nouns.
- ( such a thing, such a complicated rule ) The parsing of your examples goes thus: ( so many ) (people) ( such ) (fine weather ) Note the following: The weather is so fine that we'd like to go out.
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so and such are used in a variety of patterns.
so is an adverb of degree, or a "degree item", so it's used to modify adjectives and adverbs.
so many, so much, so little, so few, so happy, so happily, so simple, so simply, so polite, so politely
such is adjectival, and it goes with nouns.
such weather, such things, such happ
so is an adverb of degree, or a "degree item", so it's used to modify adjectives and adverbs.
so many, so much, so little, so few, so happy, so happily, so simple, so simply, so polite, so politely
such is adjectival, and it goes with nouns.
such weather, such things, such happ
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